BAITADI: The district hospital and two primary health centers in the district are struggling to cater to visiting patients for want of adequate workforce.
Kesharpur primary health centre at Melauli and Patan primary health center are making do without a doctor.
As a result, services like ECG and X-ray have failed to come into operation, said Keshab Singh Bhat of the health center.
“We are facing difficulties to provide service to patients as there is no doctor. As a result, patients are returned empty-handed,” he shared the plight.
Despite announcing vacancy for doctor at the health center, doctor’s reluctant to work has made the matter worse, said the health section chief at the Municipality, Narayan Chand, adding that dead body examination has also been affected for not having the doctor.
Likewise, the Patan primary health center is undergoing similar fate. The doctor appointed at the health center is on a study leave and a doctor on contract on maternity leave, said public health inspector at the center Prem Sagar Bhatta.
The district hospital has vacant posts of a specialist doctor and three medical officers. Four doctors on contract are serving at the hospital, said the hospital chief Dr Basanta Raj Joshi.
“Services have been affected for lack of specialist doctor,” he said, adding that there are difficulties to establish a Covid-19 hospital and operate a two-bed ICU along with ventilator for want of doctors and technicians although the federal government has released budget to run a temporary Covid-19 hospital at each local level.
There is a failure to set up a Covid-19 hospital in other local levels except Puchaudi Municipality, said the health office chief Yogesh Prasad Bhatta.
The government has released Rs 1 million to each local level in the district except for Dashsarathchanda Municipality to operate a Covid-19 hospital, he said.
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